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People keep repeating this calumny that Herman Cain has “gone bad”, but where is the honest basis in fact for that?
The Axelrod Chicago tactics seem to have worked pretty well, except that the rest of the United States is not yet Chicago. However, we have some posters here that very much want to believe in “the Chicago way”.
The strategies employed to isolate and strand a candidate in a one-party situation are rather different than when there are two or more actively participating political factions. Herman Cain was subjected to much the same sort of media blitz that was directed against Clarence Thomas, and in the end, the veracity of the female accuser was called into question, not a gentlemanly tactic at all, but the criticism, while stifled, continued in muted tones.
Like Clarence Thomas, the charges against Herman Cain came down to a “she said, he said” exchange, not supported in any way by the known behavior of either man in any other situation. Sharon Bialek is a person of uncertain personal integrity, and when her history is compared to that of Herman Cain, she comes off as being not a credible source, presenting implausible statements. No other even remotely affected individuals stepped forth to support or emphasize the claims, and Gloria Allred is no champion of impartiality.
But the damage was done, and for Axelrod and his gnomes, they could report back to the White Hous, “Mission Accomplished”.
Herman Cain is not a “former good guy”, he is an honest and frankly conservative representative of the American Dream writ large. And you have seen how he has been treated by the regime that now occupies the White Hut. The Soviet Union used to make those who had lost favor into “unpersons”, have a show trial in which the outcome was always in favor of whoever was at the top of the ant hill in the Kremlin, and the unfortunate victim of this persecution was either shot or exiled to Siberia at hard labor.
Is this what we have come to in this country, declaring someone an “unperson” and shunning any and all contact?
If so, maybe we deserve what is coming by allowing this mindset to retain access to power.
He was strung up by the very same policies of every single EEOC compliant HR department in every modern American corporation.
So whether he did it or not, the lynching mechanism is still there for all of us.
Maybe Axelrod pulled the lever or Cain hung himself but if anyone is upset by the outcome they ought to lobby to get the Politically correct sexual harassment hanging tree trimmed back a bit.